Sentence examples for secular control from inspiring English sources

Within weeks, a battle wrested this city from deeply conservative mullahs and restored secular control.

More importantly, the bills released faith-based programmes from "secular" control.

Ramsey developed around a 10th-century Benedictine abbey, which was granted freedom from ecclesiastical and secular control before the Norman Conquest (1066).

Secular control of the church increased during the Great Schism (1378 1417), and in some parts of Europe it continued even after the schism ended.

He integrated and unified the Egyptian educational system by bringing the religious schools under secular control and by transforming al-Azhar University, long a centre of Islamic learning, into a modern institution.

Now the King threatened and meant to destroy one of the most fundamental gains that the papacy had made and maintained in the great struggles of the last two centuries: papal, rather than secular, control of the clergy.

The federal government cracked down on the Hisbah last year, enforcing a national ban on religious and ethnic militias, and the secular, federally controlled police force has little interest in enforcing the harshest strictures of Shariah.

In order to rule out these possibilities, the scientists used a completely secular self-control task, one with no moral overlay: the so-called "Stroop" task.

Iran may be the first Islamic country to implode because the country is very schizoid: A relatively secular society controlled by religious fanatics and headed by a country bumpkin president whose holocaust-denials have made him an international scourge.

They are so fearful of Muslim Brotherhood dominance that they would rather have secular strongmen in control than democratically elected Islamists.

Only 10percentt of the population was literate at the time, and a secular elite took control of religion and gave women rights.